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Editorial News of Thursday, 26 April 2001

    

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...While scandal woman attempts to trap Kufuor

The elusive Miss Renee Woodard, also know as Miss JR Cotton, the brain behind the infamous quality grain scandal, tried pulling a fast one on the NPP Government early this year when she wrote a letter to Major Courage Quality requesting for protocol arrangement to present ten bags of rice to the President J.A. Kufuor.

According to the Chronicle, the letter which bore the letter head of Rice Management Technology Incorporated, 1485 Spyglass, Hill Drive, Atlanta, Georgia rather than Quality Grain Limited also requested for press coverage for the presentation which by JR Cotton's calculation would have meant the new government had accepted her tactical investment drive.

This revelation came to light when the Attorney General and minister for Justice, Nana Akufo-Addo and Major (rtd) Courage Quashigah, Minister of Food and Agriculture, jointly addressed the press on the quality grain issue.

Nana Akufo-Addo slammed the past government for guaranteeing loan running into millions of dollars to Quality Grain Company Limited, a company that arguably only exists in name and has never won a contract to grow rice at half the quantity the Ghana Government expected of it. He observed that contrary to impression created by the NDC Government through media hypes, Miss Cotton was not an investor as it became evident she was only in partnership with others to get the lucrative contract, adding that Quality Grain Company Limited was not even registered with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.